As we all know Chinese people's liberation army is a people's army that has been constantly tempered in the fires of war, especially in the war to liberate the whole country, and has established outstanding meritorious achievements, but in the early stage of its establishment, the strongest combat effectiveness among many field armies was the Northeast Field Army.
However, at the beginning, the scale of development of the Northeast Democratic United Army, the predecessor of the Northeast Field Army, was not very large, and in the initial development, the troops going to the northeast were assigned to various military regions, and cooperated with the local armed forces to clear the bandits, so each department was constantly developing and growing, in September 1947, the Northeast Democratic United Army already had 9 columns and 27 divisions, and the total strength of 10 independent divisions plus the local armed forces had reached 520,000 people.
However, to say that the combat effectiveness is the strongest, in fact, the top three columns are counted, namely the first, second, and third columns; one of them is a contingent formed by the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the original Shandong Military Region plus the 111th Division of the Northeast Army, which is a column with strong combat effectiveness in The Eastern Field Department, and the commander of the column is Li Tianyou.
Among the three tigers, the second tiger is the second column, the second column is a continuous unit formed by the 3rd Division of Central China (missing the Seventh Brigade), and the record of the first column is almost the same, from the northernmost side to the southernmost side, participated in many fierce battles, especially after the reorganization of the 39th Army, under the leadership of the commander Wu Xinquan, even won the title of Changsheng Army, but before Wu Xinquan, because the column commander Liu Zhen (awarded the rank of general after liberation) is relatively low-key, so the second column record is almost unknown. It is the second of three tigers.
The third tiger of the three tigers was originally supposed to be the sixth column, but we want to say that among the columns in Dongye, in fact, the most famous is the commander of the three columns, Han Xianchu, the first commander of the three columns is Cheng Shicai, and later taken over by Han Xianchu, among the four columns initially formed by the Northeast Field Army, these three columns ranked the highest, and therefore participated in countless battles.
In the Battle of Western Liaoning, the three columns led by Han Xianchu engaged liao yaoxiang corps, which was an ace unit of the Kuomintang army, including more than 100,000 people including the new first army and the new sixth army, and the three columns were flexible and flexible, penetrated into the enemy position, quickly cut off the command of Liao Yaoxiang and various units, forced Liao Yaoxiang to command the troops in Ming language, and later participated in the battle to liberate Hainan, and successfully liberated Hainan Island under the premise that our army was not yet good at naval warfare, and thus became an old unit known as a glorious tradition.